It's Winter with us right now, but we have a couple of plots. For veges we have lettuce, broccoli, silverbeet, beetroot, carrots and tomatoes, then we have our berry plants as well as a lemon, pear and apple tree. It's quite rewarding really ~ and beats going to the supermarket !!

@ Mini forklift: the hike took around 8 hours, probably could have done it quicker but the first part of it i was doing with my friend and he needed to take fairly frequent breaks lol. And i'm not sure what the elevation gain was but it was fairly gradual for the most but it did get steeper towards the end and the peak were i took the picture at was around 5,500 feet, the mountain with the snow on it is 7,800 feet. Sounds like quite the garden! I tried to grow broccoli this year but most of it went to seed:(. I'm also growing tomatoes even if i don't get much from them that's okay cause i love the smell of the plants haha. This is my first year growing anything and it's definitely rewarding like you said, plus its nice to know were your food is coming from!

I usually don't get sore from gardening but i hadn't done it for awhile and i was using a pick and i think that's what got my hamstrings... And for DOMS i'm not sure what to do to lessen the effects of it(something that i should research just to see if there is anything), do you have any thoughts on it cause any info would be nice lol?